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Bay Area band was commercially successful at fusing elements of funk with psychedelia? |
Sly & The Family Stone |
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What musical element establishes the groove in "Thank you (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"? |
Repeating riff in the bass |
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Name the member of Sly and the Family Stone who provides this element (above) |
Larry Graham |
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Whose "Funky Worm" was a novelty song? |
Ohio Players |
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What group had a horn section who were often guest performers on other artist’s recordings? |
Tower of Power |
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For what group was Lionel Richie a singer and songwriter? |
The Commodores |
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What is the focus of Marvin Gaye’s album What’s Going on? |
Confronted problems of black urban life, issues of environmentalism in modern society, and questions the U.S. presence in Vietnam |
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Name the artist who made an album entitled Innervisions |
Stevie Wonder |
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What group helped Motown break into the teen market in the late 1960s and early 1970s? |
The Jackson 5 |
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Why was the singing of Rare Earth to Motown demonstrating Berry Gordy’s broader musical aspirations? |
Branches out to all musical devices |
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What independent producers started Philadelphia International? |
Gamble and Huff |
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In addition to lyrical vocals and driving rhythms, what musical elements were a feature of the "Philadelphia sound?" |
Lyric vocals and drums rhythm section with elegant string arrangements |
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Name the artists produced by Thom Bell |
Spinners, Stylistics |
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Name the "blaxploitation" films of the 1970’s |
Shaft, Sweet Sweetback’s Baddasss Song |
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What song firmly established the rhythmic sound of the wah-wah guitar in 1970s black pop? |
The theme from shaft |
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Who was Isaac Hayes’ songwriting partner in his early days at Stax/Volt/Atlantic? For what song were they known? |
David Porter, Soul Man? |
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With what band did George Clinton begin his career? |
The Parliaments |
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Name the musicians who worked with both James Brown and George Clinton |
a. Maceo Parker b. Bootry Collins c. Fred Wesley |
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Out of which Jamaican musical style did reggae develop? |
SKA |
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What Jamaican musician’s work exemplifies this style (SKA)? |
Bob Marley |
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What musician helped to popularize reggae outside of Jamaica with a cover of "I Shot the Sheriff"? |
Eric Clapton |
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Name the musical aspects of disco |
a. Underground style b. Enjoyed through physical movement c. Direct dance beat with catchy pop hook |
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What artists were featured on the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever? |
a. Bee Gees b. Travolta |
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How did disco bring back the authority of the producer? |
Wasn’t about the artist, but the beat in general, which returned production authority to the producer |
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Name the song heard in class that exemplifies the disco sound |
Donnna Sommers, "Bad Girls" |
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Off the Wall was a collaboration between what two musical artists? |
Michael Jackson and Quinty Jones |
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In 1979 an antidisco rally was held in what city? |
Chicago |
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Name the main reasons for the disco backlash in the late 1970s |
a. Rockers were reacting against the origins of disco in gay communities. b. Rockers were offended that disco music facilitated meeting members of the opposite sex at bars for quick one night stands. c. Disco stood in direct confrontation to the hippie aesthetic that had been developing in rock communities d. Disco was about fun, not spiritual or social issues e. Took spotlight off artist and put on producer f. MOST REJECTED THE ANTI HIPPIE AESTHETICS OF DISCO |
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On what album did Stanley Clarke fuse jazz, rock, and reggae? |
School Days |
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Whom did Marvin Gaye say wrote the music for his album, What’s Going On? |
I think Al Cleveland but you said OR himself…who knows or cares? |
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Who earned an Oscar for his score for the film, Shaft? |
Isaac Hayes |
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